{"id":3322,"date":"2021-06-29T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2021-08-19T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:22:46","slug":"raf-valley-late-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"RAF Valley  &#8211;  Late June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAF Valley on the island of Anglesey in North Wales is home to Number 4 Flying Training School &amp; currently looks after the following units :-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>72 (F) Squadron with the Texan T.1 trainer aircraft &amp; used for Basic Fast Jet Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>25 (F) &amp; 208 Squadrons with the Hawk T.2 trainer aircraft &amp; used for Advanced Fast Jet Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>202 Squadron with the Jupiter HT.1 helicopter &amp; used for Maritime &amp; Mountain Training.\u00a0 The squadron is an element of the Defence Helicopter Flying School which is based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During our time at RAF Valley, two F-15C Eagle aircraft from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk made several low approaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"flickr_72157719661363559_1064\"><div class=\"slickr-flickr-galleria landscape m800  original\" style=\"visibility:hidden;\"><p class=\"nav m800\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"prevSlide\">&laquo; previous<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"startSlide\">start<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"stopSlide\">stop<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"nextSlide\">next &raquo;<\/a><\/p><ul><li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368336887_b67204b1a2_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368336887_b67204b1a2_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM331&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097736_c5a778bfcd_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097736_c5a778bfcd_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM328&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097776_08de4cb496_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097776_08de4cb496_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM327&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320768_25aa83b35d_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320768_25aa83b35d_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM327 &amp; ZM331&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368336987_10dd22f04d_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368336987_10dd22f04d_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM323&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097836_f10f0633b7_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097836_f10f0633b7_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Texan T.1  ZM323, ZM327, ZM328 &amp; ZM329&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320878_0301063933_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320878_0301063933_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Jupiter HT.1  ZM496 &amp; ZM500&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320913_a4eabb0334_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320913_a4eabb0334_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2 ZK025 &amp; ZK033&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097676_5f6ea73f68_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369097676_5f6ea73f68_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK035&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320983_e6f74beab4_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369320983_e6f74beab4_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK033&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105685_44854a4c4e_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105685_44854a4c4e_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK032&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368337282_00f2996c87_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51368337282_00f2996c87_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK029&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321138_99291250cd_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321138_99291250cd_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK026&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105785_1ecbe46284_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105785_1ecbe46284_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK024&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321188_bc54414a52_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321188_bc54414a52_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK023&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321228_77ae92cee0_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369321228_77ae92cee0_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK021&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369833484_ce325316d1_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51369833484_ce325316d1_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK020 &amp; ZK029&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105875_51e191b974_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105875_51e191b974_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Hawk T.2  ZK012&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105895_a3a8c46666_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105895_a3a8c46666_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;F-15C  86-0163&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105925_ebb878dfc5_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/51370105925_ebb878dfc5_s.jpg\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;F-15C  84-0019&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><p class=\"nav m800\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"prevSlide\">&laquo; previous<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"startSlide\">start<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"stopSlide\">stop<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"nextSlide\">next &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/div><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAF Valley on the island of Anglesey in North Wales is home to Number 4 Flying Training School &amp; currently looks after the following units :- 72 (F) Squadron with the Texan T.1 trainer aircraft &amp; used for Basic Fast Jet Training 25 (F) &amp; 208 Squadrons with the Hawk T.2 trainer aircraft &amp; used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapcon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}